# Bidwell Junior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060837000812`
- **School name**: Bidwell Junior High
- **Location**: Chico, CA 95926
- **Address**: 2376 North Ave.
- **District**: Chico Unified (LEAID `0608370`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 39.75857, -121.83809
- **Phone**: (530)891-3080

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,012
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Orange
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Green
  - chronic_absent: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 53.0% proficient — 928 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.4% (205 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 24.6% (226 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (18 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (19 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 22.1%
- **Black/African American**: 5.0%
- **Asian**: 2.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 62.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 6.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 57.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.6% — 127 students
- **English Learners**: 4.7% — 47 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 64 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,974
- **Federal share**: $1,649
- **State + local share**: $12,325
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,010
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,062,021
- **Federal share**: 13.3%
- **State share**: 51.0%
- **Local share**: 35.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,441,314

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $82,887
- **Poverty rate**: 16.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 37.1%
- **Unemployment**: 8.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,448
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 24.6 miles (KOPPERS CO INC OROVILLE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.01 miles (CHUCK PATTERSON INC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DEL ORO WATER CO.-PARADISE PINES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.98977 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hooker Oak Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 15.5% (this school: 19.4%)
- **Achieve Charter School of Chico** — 1.1 mi away, 11.5% (this school: 19.4%)
- **Pleasant Valley High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.78% (this school: 19.4%)
- **Marigold Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 19.4%)
- **Sierra View Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 8% (this school: 19.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Pleasant Valley High** — 1.2 mi away, 63.4% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Sierra View Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 63.25% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Chico High** — 1.6 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Inspire School of Arts and Sciences** — 1.7 mi away, 75.3% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Chico Country Day** — 2.4 mi away, 60.25% (this school: 59.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Wildflower Open Classroom** — 0.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Neal Dow Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Hooker Oak Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Pleasant Valley High** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Marigold Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bidwell-junior-high-chico
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bidwell-junior-high-chico/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bidwell-junior-high-chico/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bidwell-junior-high-chico/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bidwell-junior-high-chico/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bidwell-junior-high-chico/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bidwell-junior-high-chico/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bidwell-junior-high-chico/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bidwell-junior-high-chico/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bidwell-junior-high-chico/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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